Eclipse - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: eclipseEclipse
An interception or obscuration of the light of the sun moon or other luminous body by the intervention of some other body either between it and the eye or between the luminous body and that illuminated by it A lunar eclipse is caused by the moon passing through the earths shadow a solar eclipse by the moon coming between the sun and the observer A satellite is eclipsed by entering the shadow of its primary The obscuration of a planet or star by the moon or a planet though of the nature of an eclipse is called an occultation The eclipse of a small portion of the sun by Mercury or Venus is called a transit of the planet...
Bailys beads
A row of bright spots observed in connection with total eclipses of the sun Just before and after a total eclipse the slender unobscured crescent of the suns disk appears momentarily like a row of bright spots resembling a string of beads The phenomenon first fully described by Francis Baily 1774 1844 is thought to be an effect of irradiation and of inequalities of the moons edge...
Occultation
The hiding of a heavenly body from sight by the intervention of some other of the heavenly bodies applied especially to eclipses of stars and planets by the moon and to the eclipses of satellites of planets by their primaries...
Emerge
To rise out of a fluid to come forth from that in which anything has been plunged enveloped or concealed to issue and appear as to emerge from the water or the ocean the sun emerges from behind the moon in an eclipse to emerge from poverty or obscurity...
Obscuration
The act or operation of obscuring the state of being obscured as the obscuration of the moon in an eclipse...
partial
Of pertaining to or affecting a part only not general or universal not total or entire as a partial eclipse of the moon...
Partially
In part not totally as partially true the sun partially eclipsed...
Almanack
Almanack [fr. the Arabic particle al, and manach, to count or reckon], a publication in which is recounted the days of the week, month, and year, both common and particular, distinguishing the fasts, feasts, terms, etc., from the common days by proper marks, pointing out also the several changes of the moon, tides, eclipses, etc. It is a part of the law of England, of which the Courts must take notice in the returns of writs, etc., but the almanack to go by is that annexed to the Book of Common Prayer. It is not evidence of the time of sunrise on a particular day, Tutton v. Darke, (1860) 5 H&N 647....
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